My favorite FTP client. Although, I think I’m using it more for transferring files to S3 than for FTP. The fact that you can set custom headers when uploading to Amazon’s data storage service, is one of the things I love most about Transmit.

Living in a different country than the one my parents live in, I use Skype to keep in touch with my folks. It’s pretty reliable, but its biggest selling point for me, is that it runs on the first gen iPad. Which my parents own.